Internship Data visualization tracking project indicators (MEAL & IT)

Location: ZOA HQ, Apeldoorn (The Netherlands)
Start date: Flexible between April and June 2026
Duration: 6 months
Hours: 32 hours per week

ZOA The Netherlands is looking for an

Intern Data visualization for tracking project indicators
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Department and IT Department

Are you passionate about continuous improvement, strategic recommendations, data processing recommendations, visualization and analysis, and making humanitarian aid future ready? Join ZOA’s MEAL and IT team and help shape how we visualize humanitarian project data for strategic decision making.

About ZOA

ZOA is an international relief and recovery organization working in 14 countries affected by conflict or fragility. We focus on sectors such as Food Security & Livelihoods, WASH, Peacebuilding, and Shelter, and work on strategic themes including Climate Resilience, Peace Nexus, Localization, and Gender, Diversity & Inclusion (GDI).

About the Internship

ZOA’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team is looking for a motivated intern to support change management in working with data. For tracking project progress and impact ZOA country programs use indicators from the website zoa.indikit.net. ZOA would like to gain insight into which of these indicators are most used in ZOA projects and how labor-intensive current ways of data tracking are.  The goal of the internship is to research the current way of working and to provide recommendations for improving and optimizing the processes that precede data visualization. The final product will consist of concrete recommendations on how work processes can be enhanced so that, in the long term, data can be visualized more effectively, learning across country programs becomes possible through comparison, and data increasingly supports strategic decision making. This internship is ideal for someone interested in the intersection between IT, data science, and humanitarian programming and may be tailored as a master’s thesis project.

Your tasks

• Assess current project proposals to determine the most frequently used indicators;
• Provide an overview of the current ways of tracking project indicators in various country programs and their labor-intensity;
• Make an inventory of how other, comparable organizations do this.
• Develop various options for data visualization in a new tool which will be less labor-intensive than the current way of working and give recommendations;
• Contribute to communities of practice and webinars on MEAL and IT;
• Provide general MEAL support, depending on your interests and expertise.

What you will deliver

• A short report with the overview of the current ways of tracking project indicators, insights into how other organizations do this, and recommendations for alternative ways of working on tracking project indicator progress values;
• Additional outputs may be agreed upon depending on your learning goals and ZOA’s needs.

What we are looking for

• Enrolled in the final phase of a Master’s degree in Econometrics, Sustainable Development, IT, Data Science or related fields;
• Experience with data analysis;
• Fluent in English (spoken and written);
• Organized, proactive, flexible, culturally sensitive, and able to work independently in a dynamic environment;
• Motivation to learn about the humanitarian and development sector;
• Commitment and fully supportive to the vision, mission and Christian values of ZOA. 

What we offer 

• A meaningful internship experience in an international NGO;
• Close collaboration with and supervision by experienced MEAL and IT professionals;
• Opportunity to shape real-world tools and contribute to ongoing programming;
• Possibility to align internship with your thesis or academic requirements;
• A learning environment with space for initiative and creativity;
• A monthly internship allowance of €450.

Interested?
Apply directly via our website via the "apply now button". Please indicate whether you intend to combine this internship with a thesis project.
If you have any questions, please contact Peter Das, p.das@zoa.ngo or Eline Rosenhart, e.rosenhart@zoa.ngo. 

We look forward to hearing from you!